Chapter 35

Tris awakes to find one of her worst fears to come alive, she is in a glass tank filling with water, this time she can't break it. A camera is in the corner of the tank. She sobs, helplessly, she screams trying to break the glass. She decides she is going to die a brave death, she is not a coward. She stares at the camera, she wants them to see how brave she is. She makes herself forget she's dying, she thinks happy thoughts, she lets the water take her. The suffocating is painful but she stays calm... now she seems fearless! The glass suddenly cracks and her mother is holding a gun on the outside, with two dead Dauntless guards at her feet, her Dauntless is showing!! They run together, killing Dauntless guards on the way, which is probably hard for Tris to see, knowing these were her members, innocent people, just brainwashed. Natalie, Tris' mother found her by watching the trains ever since the attack, always intending to save her. Tris' father and brother are safe in a basement of a building.. Did Natalie tell them she left to go save Tris? Natalie then explains to Tris that she was Divergent herself! She was born Dauntless and on choosing day she chose Abnegation, to save herself from being killed if the Dauntless discovered what she was. Natalie explains that Divergents are threats to leaders because every faction conditions its members to think act a certain way, for the Dauntless it's hard for them to obey this. They can't be confined to one way of thinking which scares the leaders. They will always be trouble.

When the Dauntless guards find them, Natalie tells Tris to go to her father and brother. She tells Tris to be brave and sprints into the street without another thought, creating a distraction for the guards. She sacrificed herself for Tris, this was brave and selfless. The guards shoot Natalie and Tris is hysterical, but she gets back up and keeps running... her mother did NOT just die for nothing.
She reaches the building where the rest of her family lies. She tells them the bad news, she catches them up on what's happening as they stitch her arm up. Caleb also caught Tris up, he researched the simulation and found out what Jeanine was trying to do, he dropped out of initiation and became faction less, well he became Abnegation which I bet his father loved. The room is filled with other Abnegations taking shelter, one of them, Marcus. They all come up with a plan. They are going to wake the soldiers up. They must find the computers that controls the program and destroy it. Tris remembers what Jeanine was talking about on the phone, the control room is where it's at! They decide to split up, anyone who can fire a gun and isn't afraid of heights, comes with Tris, the others continue on to seek safety with Amity.

"Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming." -Tris